David Stern, a confidant of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was in email contact with the paedophile financier during the taxpayer-funded visit.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had dinner with a model on an official taxpayer-funded trip to China, while his aide sent photos of the pair to Jeffrey Epstein.
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To Jeffrey Epstein, David Stern was “my China contact”. To Stern, 48, Epstein was “my boss”. And to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Stern was a trusted aide and close confidant.
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Little appears in the public domain about Stern, a German citizen who studied in the UK before going into business in China. But the files shed light on his background. Asked by Epstein to provide a CV, Stern summed up his own career in a few sentences.
He studied law and Chinese law at SOAS, University of London, before moving to China in 1996 to study Chinese. He then joined Deutsche Bank in Shanghai and Siemens in Beijing, before returning to London to work for Ermgassen & Co, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions in the Chinese market.
In 2002 he set out on his own, founding Asia Gateway, which he described to Epstein as a China-focused strategy advisory firm. He went on to set up Asia Gateway China, which focused on healthcare and IT, and also explored turning his companies into a boutique wealth-management firm focused on high-net-worth individuals in China.
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As a director of Pitch@Palace, which was based within Buckingham Palace, Stern attended regular events with the royal family, including an event where he sat next to Queen Elizabeth at St James’s Palace. The same year, Stern was appointed to the board of the St George’s House Trust. Founded by Prince Philip in 1966, the charity’s purpose is to provide a private space “where people of influence from right across society could come together to debate and discuss issues of national and international importance”, its website says. “The values of the House are openness, honesty, trust and respect.”
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